What would you do if you found a USB stick in your office parking lot on the way to your cubicle in the morning? Would you pick it up? Would you plug it into your computer? Looking for some answers to those questions, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ran a little experiment. It sprinkled [...]

IronKey urges IT security industry to take action London, UK – Jun 9, 2011 IronKey, the leader in securing data and online access, has today urged IT security professionals to take immediate action to address rapidly increasing cyber-crime attacks. This call to the industry follows last week’s Global Cyber-Crime Summit in London, where leading firms [...]

Work Wise Week promotes smarter working practices, such as flexible, remote and mobile working, and working from home. It aims to give half the working population, some 14 million people, the opportunity to work smarter by 2011. The week includes Mobile Office Day and Remote Office Day to encourage people to work while on the move [...]

30 per cent suffered one or more organised attacks in the last 12 months resulting in theft of data or money. IronKey, the leader in securing data and online access, recently announced the results of a survey of IT security professionals working at UK based organisations including, Lloyds Banking Group, HP,Fujitsu, Siemens, Worcester County Council [...]

Secure portable applications reduce remote working costs, without risking costly data breaches. IronKey, the leader in securing data and online access, along with Ceedo today announced the launch of their secure workspace virtualisation solution, designed for the mobile enterprise. As more businesses and government agencies adopt mobile workforces, enterprise must also meet the demands of [...]

Cambridgeshire County Council breached the Data Protection Act by losing a memory stick containing sensitive data relating to vulnerable adults, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The ICO was informed by the council in November 2010 that an employee had recently lost an unencrypted memory stick containing personal data relating to a minimum of [...]

The cost of cybercrime to UK businesses is £21bn with British firms being the target of IP theft, industrial espionage and theft of customer data. According to the first attempt by the government to cost-up the impact of cybercrime on UK plc, the report by Detica and the Office of Cyber Security and Information Assurance [...]

NHS Trust staff using IronKey can now comply with UK Data Protection Act while carrying sensitive data. IronKey, a manufacturer of managed mobile computing offerings, will provide Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with IronKey Enterprise to secure and protect active patient records. The company said consultants, midwives, nurses and information analysts can [...]

IronKey, the leading manufacturue of secure and managed mobile computing solutions, has announced that it is working to provide South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service with IronKey Enterprise to secure and protect data. With IronKey Enterprise, senior officers throughout the service, as well as fire safety officers, can carry sensitive data without risking violating the [...]

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) today finally used its power to fine organisations for breaching the Data Protection Act (DPA), stinging Hertfordshire County Council for £100,000 and employment services company A4e for £60,000. The ICO was given the power to issue fines of up to £500,000 back in April but has until now declined to [...]

The last week has seen two more data loss incidents by NHS professionals, with both found to be in breach of the data protection act by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Last Thursday, specialist healthcare recruitment agency Healthcare Locums (HCL) was found to be in breach of the act following the loss of personal data [...]

Protect yourself: Police warn users to check their home computers are secure Nineteen people suspected of stealing millions from online bank accounts have been arrested by police as detectives from the Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit raided a string of addresses across London. The suspects are alleged to be part of a gang that has [...]

Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust has been found to be in breach of the Data Protection Act by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after the loss of over 100 patient records. A CD, which contained scans of 112 patient records from the Intensive Care Unit of New Cross Hospital’s Heart and Lung Unit, was discovered [...]

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) fined the UK branch of Zurich Insurance £2,275,000 for failing to have adequate systems and controls in place to prevent the loss of customers’ confidential information. The fine is the highest levied to date on a single firm for data security failings. The incident was reported by SC Magazine last [...]

IronKey, the leader in secure and managed portable computing solutions, has been recognized with SC Magazine’s 2010 Reader Trust Award as the company with the Best Mobile Device Security Solution in the industry. The announcement was made last week at the SC Awards Gala, held in conjunction with the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco. [...]

Anti-Virus and Remote Protection Updates Keep IronKey Devices Protected Against Latest Threats. IronKey, maker of the world’s most secure flash drive, today announced a comprehensive initiative to protect portable and mobile media from viruses, worms, trojans, botnets, crimeware and other malware threats. Enterprises and government agencies have been under attack from targeted malicious software (malware) [...]

IronKey to Safeguard NATO Member Data with Secure USB Drives  IronKey, the maker of the world’s most secure flash drive, today announced that it has been approved for use within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to provide the 28 member nation organization with IronKey S200 secure hardware encrypted USB flash drives. IronKey has a [...]

IronKey AES-256 USB Drives Pass Stringent Testing to Meet Physical Security Standards for Government Certification IronKey, maker of the world’s most secure flash drive, today announced that its new IronKey S200 products are the first portable USB storage devices to gain full approval from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for Federal Information [...]